7th-mid 5th century BCE
4.7 x 10.6 x 1.8 cm (1 7/8 x 4 3/16 x 11/16 in.)
Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.
12th-13th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishSilver
18th centuryBritishPlaster
Porcelain with molded "anhua" decoration and incised "anhua" mark reading "Yongle nian zhi" on the floor
18th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishEarthenware with green lead glaze
1st century BCE-1st century CEChineseSilver
19th centuryAmericanEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground
16th centuryChineseOlive and grayish green translucent nephrite with deep brown and green patches
3rd-1st century BCEChineseEarthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration
2nd millennium BCEChineseAsh-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with thin, intentionally applied, brownish-green, ash glaze over all-over ground of iron-brown slip; with subtle decoration of incised lines. Reportedly recovered near Chŏnju, North Chŏlla province, in 1962.
13th centuryKorean